Last week, the 92nd Street Y hosted a talk on Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy New York, a new book on the former first lady. Caroline Kennedy was there, to talk about her family's private life at the White House, while Christiane Amanpour, William vanden Heuvel and Hamish Bowles, discussed Jackie's time in Washington as well as her years as a private citizen. There will never be enough new info on the Kennedys, but here are five things we learned from the diverse panel of speakers:

1. When Jackie moved into the White House, with a three-year-old daughter and new-born son, Caroline said "caring for us, protecting us was her top priority. She fought to carve out the time she spent with us each day."

2. Jackie was "dismayed by the hideously unattractive look of the White House," Kennedy said, which led her to restore the building and later give a televised tour of her efforts.

3. Jackie served as a mentor to ABC news anchor Amanpour, who attended Brown University with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and shared a house with him there. "She took an incredible interest in my career, always encouraged me, mentioned I should get married...When I got an award she would send me flowers. It's very rare to have that kind of mentoring," Amanpour said.

4. Although Jackie, in the book, calls Martin Luther King, Jr., "a phony" who cheated on his wife, she chose to attend his funeral in 1968, said vanden Heuvel, a Kennedy family aide and confidante, "to express her admiration" for him.

5. Despite her dislike of hats, Jackie commissioned her iconic pillboxes "so her hair would be dominant," said Bowles, curator of a 2001 exhibit on Jackie's fashion at the White House. He also said that although Kennedy—who sought fashion advice from then-editor Diana Vreeland—was "always in slacks, a shirt and tousled hair" on informal occasions while her formal outfits had an "armorial quality. Her clothing was almost two-dimensional."

6. On overseas tours, Jackie favored "strong dramatic colors that stand out in a crowd," like an outfit she wore on a visit to New Delhi, India, which Bowles said created a "little dot singing in hot pink, where the focus lies."